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JAMES LEE CUMISKEY
First Lieutenant · U.S. Air Force
December 27, 1941 – June 13, 1967
Service recordJames Lee Cumiskey, of Claremore, Oklahoma, served as a First Lieutenant in the U.S. Air Force. He died on June 13, 1967, in Pleiku Province, South Vietnam, at age 25. His name is inscribed on Panel 21E, Line 97 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 21E · Line 97
Names are inscribed in the order of loss, starting at Panel 1E at the apex and ending at Panel 1W. At the Memorial, find the panel number at the base and count down from the top line.
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Service
- Branch
- U.S. Air Force
- Rank
- First Lieutenant (1STLT)
- Service
- Reserve / National Guard
- Unit (as recorded)
- 7 AF
- Born
- December 27, 1941
- Home of record
- Claremore, Oklahoma (Rogers County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- June 13, 1967
- Age
- 25
- Province
- Pleiku
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Aircraft Crash — crew
Context · from the records
What was happening
19 names on the Wall carry the date June 13, 1967; he was the only one lost in Pleiku Province that day. In June 1967, 948 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
The unit recorded as “7 AF”, his unit in the record, lost 2 of its members that month.
Also on Panel 21E, Line 97
- SIDNEY EDWARD DENTONSpecialist Four · June 13, 1967
- AMBROSIO SALAZAR GRANDEAMajor · June 13, 1967
- DON LEE GRISBYCorporal · June 13, 1967
- GEORGE BURNS HAYSCaptain · June 13, 1967
Same unit, same day
- EDWARD ARTHUR LAPIERRECaptain · Panel 21E, Line 98
From Claremore
- LOWHMAN SOLON SUTTONPrivate First Class · July 30, 1968
- WAYNE LOUIS BOLTEColonel · April 2, 1972
Source. U.S. Department of Defense, Defense Casualty Analysis System, Vietnam Conflict Extract Data File (as of April 29, 2008), Records of the Office of the Secretary of Defense, Record Group 330, National Archives (NAID 2240992). Panel and line as recorded in that file. This page presents the official record and its historical context; no biography has been written for him yet. See something wrong? Report a correction.